Topic: Holmegaard Canada.... or not?

[Pinkspoons]

Is the glass on the left from the Canada range (the glass on the right is a 9oz Claret)?

I know the range incorporated similar bowl shapes, but I'm not familiar with this one. The quality is there, as is the finish to the base, as well as the way the bowl's been finished (ground & polished, which was standard for the larger sizes, and fire-polishing for the smaller ones).

The thing that's troubling me is that the glass of the bowl is VERY thick when compared to the other sizes I have. Anyone familiar with this as a part of the Canada range, or is it a later knock-off?

Side-By-Side Comparison
Rims

Thanks in advance.

[Pip]

Hi Nic, I have a set of 6 glasses like that in a smoked colour and I've always thought them to be Caithness ....

[Pinkspoons]

Oh dear.  Do you have a photo to hand?

Oh, forgot to mention - the glass in question is 13.5cm tall.

[Sue C]

could they be Holmegaard Princess?

[Pip]

No photo sorry because they were on my old hard drive that snuffed it.  I still have the glasses though (no idea where they are right now though!) - I believe they dated from the 1970's and, I think, designed by Domnhall O Broin but as I said mine were in a quite distinctive Caithness smokey colour. I don't know if CG made them in clear/flint - I wonder if Frank recognises them as being CG production or not?

[Pip]

Definitely not HG Princess glasses Sue!  Quite different - I've been lucky enough to have had several sets of them - I have a photo of one I'll post up here so you can see.

[Pinkspoons]

Have spotted them on Frank's site:

Dunnet Goblet

The shape's right, but the rim looks wrong, though - is that a safety rim on the Caithness ones? Doesn't look ground & polished from that shot.

[Pip]

Well spotted Nic - I'd not noticed that on Frank's site - so not Domnhall O Broin then but Charles Orr - that's very helpful for me - not so for you though.  I can't remember the rim finish I'm afraid ... I'll try and find them.

For Sue, here's a Princess glass (this one's a champagne bowl - I've got a set of 6 and I've also had a boxed set of 6 white wine glasses) they're a very distinctive shape and have a teardrop shaped enclosed bubble in the base.

http://i53.photobucket.com/albums/g60/pips-trip/IMG_4339.jpg

[Pinkspoons]

Here's a (partial) pattern illustration I salvaged from a long-since vanished eBay auction:

Canada Patterns

The last glass - a champagne bowl - has a similar shaped bowl to mine, in that it's curved and not flared like the other sizes. Just wish the illustration was complete so I could know for sure. *sigh*

[chopin-liszt]

 

My guts said "Caithness" immediately to the glass on the left.
I don't think it "goes" with the one on the right at all.

I've certainly seen the left one in amethyst and smoky(grey-brown).